Awww. I love puppies when someone else is cleaning up after them and training them. I rescued a 2 year old lab mix and just adore him. Luckily he was housetrained and sleeping through the night when I got him so he was perfect for me.

The whole family thought PattyAnn was adorable, Flo, and "their Majesties" do give off that air of Royalty.

Their beautiful dogs.

Aww, thanks for the nice comments, everyone. We're just crazy about them. At first Tom (my husband) turned his nose up at getting a smaller breed as he's always had golden retrievers/labs but it didn't take long until they won him over. Actually, it was his idea to get the pup.

(although for some reason, he's always scarce when there's an 'accident' that needs to be cleaned up)

I am 100% a dog person, though I don't mind cats just so long as they act like dogs. I've hated cats ever since one of them attacked my sister for looking at it. Seriously: she was spending the night at my aunt's place. While she was talking on the phone with my parents, the cat jumped up onto the back of the sofa she was sitting on. My sister glanced over at the movement, the cat hissed, arched, & slashed across the face: eyebrow to cheek. Thing's frikkin' evil.